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Omens and oracles: divination in ancient Greece

By Matthew , Dillon

Book information

Year
2017
ISBN
9781315577791, 1315577798, 9781317148951, 1317148959
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4584668 bytes)
Pages
462\487
Time added
2019-04-05 08:37:08
Divination -- Greece -- History -- To 1500;Greece

Description

The ancient Greeks on divination -- Diviners of epic sagas -- Diviners in the historical narrative -- 'Interpreting omens from birds' -- Portents and prodigies -- Sacrificial entrails and battlefield sacrifices -- Dreams, dice, and the dead -- Oracular centres of Apollo and Zeus -- The demise of oracular shrines and the transformation of omens.

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